Aussie Burger, Portuguese Style

Ingredients:
1 1/2 lb 93% lean solid soil beef
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
half dozen pineapple rings
1 1/2 teaspoons sambal oelek
iii tablespoons mayonnaise
iii pickled beets, thinly sliced
1 tomato, sliced
half dozen eggs
half dozen lettuce leaves
salt
freshly solid soil dark pepper

Directions:

In a medium bowl, mix together the meat, Worcestershire sauce, tabular array salt together with pepper. Form into half dozen uniform patties. Set aside. In a pocket-size bowl, whisk together the sambal oelek together with mayonnaise. Set aside.

Prep grill according to manufacturers' instructions*. Grill the burgers until desired doneness. Quickly grill the pineapple slices, flipping once, until grill marks appear. Transfer burgers to a plate, comprehend to last along warm.

Heat a pocket-size amount of butter inwards a skillet or spray amongst cooking spray. Fry each egg.

Place ane burger on meridian of each lettuce leaf. Spread amongst sambal oelek mayo. Top amongst pineapple, beets, Lycopersicon esculentum together with fried egg. Serve immediately.

*Alternately, create the burgers together with pineapple on the stove inwards a grill pan or skillet.

My thoughts:

When nosotros were inwards Portugal, nosotros were surprised at how many gourmet hamburger shops at that spot were. It seemed empty-headed to teach a burger piece nosotros were at that spot only nosotros couldn't resist. We constitute that inwards Portugal it is actually mutual to serve burgers without buns together with amongst a side of rice and fries. And what burgers they were! Each ane came amongst exciting toppings together with sauces that were either Portuguese influenced or amongst a to a greater extent than international flair. They were then good! No ane inwards Portugal every picked upward whatsoever nutrient amongst their hands (even hot dogs were served amongst newspaper napkins wrapped roughly them then you lot didn't select to impact them directly) then a hamburger you lot ate amongst a knife together with fork brand sense.

To convey it dorsum to this recipe, I had ever wanted to brand an Aussie burger "with the lot" only it seemed similar every bit good much to jibe on a bun. I mean, I gauge they practise it all the fourth dimension inwards Commonwealth of Australia only I would cease upward amongst one-half of that burger inwards my lap if I tried to alternative that up. So I idea I'd serve it upward Portuguese style. I served it amongst rice together with corn on the cob because corn is inwards season, only a pocket-size salad or fries (!) would function too. The improver of a fried egg seemed real Portuguese-appropriate too, I dear a fried egg together with they were quite pop inwards Portugal on burgers together with steak (bife a cavalo). I select somewhat of late last a fried egg devotee together with dear how they gustation on meridian of a burger which alone inticed me farther to travail my mitt at an at-home Aussie burger. The egg I fried upward for this recipe was slightly crisper roughly the edges than I'd similar only our stove is on a slight slant which makes my whites run a fleck together with I was distracted past times assembling all those toppings! It withal tasted fantastic though, I dear a runny yolk on a burger.